. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . a cornbe slight, all that is necessary is to take off the pressureof the shoe, and this is assisted by removing a thin sliceor two of horn at the part. When the injury is verygreat, matter may be formed under the horn, and, ofcourse, must be let out by removal of the horn over there is no reason to believe that matter hasformed, a corn, i. e., the bruised and discolored horn,should not be dug out in the ruthless manner so com-monly adopted. Cutting away all the horn of the sole atthe heels leaves the wall without any support. Whe
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . a cornbe slight, all that is necessary is to take off the pressureof the shoe, and this is assisted by removing a thin sliceor two of horn at the part. When the injury is verygreat, matter may be formed under the horn, and, ofcourse, must be let out by removal of the horn over there is no reason to believe that matter hasformed, a corn, i. e., the bruised and discolored horn,should not be dug out in the ruthless manner so com-monly adopted. Cutting away all the horn of the sole atthe heels leaves the wall without any support. Whenthe shoe rests upon the wall it is unable to sustain theweight without yielding, and thus an additional cause ofirritation and soreness is manufactured. The excessiveparing of corns is the chief reason of the difficulty ofgetting permanently rid of them. The simplest device fortaking all pressure off a corn is to cut off an inch and ahalf of the inner heel of the shoe. With the three-quar-ter shoe (Fig. 74) a horse will soon go sound, and his foot. Fig. 74.—Three-quarter Shoe, will then resume its healthy state. The saying once acorn, always a corn is not true, but it is true tliat abruised heel is tender and liable to bruise again, from,very slight unevenness of pressure, for at least three- 102 THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. moiitlis. All tliat is necessary is care in fitting andabstention from removal of too much horn at the course, when the degree of lameness is such as tosuggest that matter is formed, the horn must be cutaway, so as to afford an exit for it, but the majority ofcorns are detected long before the stage of suppurationhas resulted from a bruise. A Burnt Sole.—In fitting a hot shoe to a foot itsometimes happens that the sensitive parts under thesole at the toe are injured by heat. This is most likelyto occur with a foot on which the horn is thin, especiallyif it also be flat or convex. Burning the sole is an injurywhich must be put clown to negligence.
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